He also starred in one of my favourite sitcoms "The Thin Blue Line" as a Police Commander surrounded by a 'unique' set of Police force characters. Bit like a nice straight-laced version of 'Blackadder is a policeman'.
Rowan, as ever, establishes the character almost immediately with his "I didn't think this matter could be discussed over the electric telephone.". The slight burr to the speech and the archaism instantly set the tone.
He really is a comedy genius. From Not the Nine O'clock News, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line to Mr Bean and many other standalone sketches - check out his one about Hell and the Devil. When you realize that he also has a speech impediment in the form of stammer, the man is an extraordinary talent.
The one with the gorilla in is one of my favourite skits of all time. I've heard people in comment sections saying it's been scrubbed from the Internet though by the powers that be. Its very strange. If I don't see it when I look maybe it's on rumble
The Gerald The Gorilla sketch was on YT for well over a decade, then one day it wasn't any more. The same thing happened with Dave Allen's fallout shelter sketch.
I LOVE Rowan Atkinson!! It's 'Not The Nine O'Clock News'. So many great names from that programme! And, fun fact, he's a bit of a petrol head. My mum worked at a car dealership a few years back and he was a customer. I WISH I had met him!!!
This is one of my favourite sketches. It's not from a TV show, but from a live stage show that he did way back, I think in the eighties. Toby the devil came from the same show. Other than revive some parts of it for charity, I don't think he ever did anything like it again. He is very much an actor rather than a comedian. He doesn't do stand up and he does few interviews and never pops up on celebrity shows. But then he has made so much money from Mr Bean he doesn't need to.
Rowan Atkinson's talent is best revealed when the material is fairly mundane. He can make a fairly ordinary sketch painfully hilarious. I recall seeing him do a sketch in a live show shortly before The Black Adder was released. He later did a short version in his Mr Bean series. What I saw was 15 minutes of him trying to change on a beach with a man apparently asleep on a deck chair near by. It was 15 minutes of hilarious torture.
Angus Deaton is a ledge, got nabbed in a cocaine/hooker binge and still did a tv show for a couple of episodes til he was sacked. He was absolutely rinsed by Merton and Hislop
Not a Scottish accent, unless he was going for: born in Scotland, adopted by aristocrats in Oxfordshire, went to Eton, then Trinity college at Cambridge, PhD from Oxford and is now the headmaster at Harrow school. 😎
@@SiggiTh No, he was definitely doing a posh Scottish accent. The rising/falling cadence and heavily rolled ‘r’s are unmistakable. It was a slightly shaky posh Scottish accent that veered into his own accent at points, but it was a posh Scots accent nonetheless. The poshest Scottish accents are really quite similar to posh English accents tbh.
@@stuartcollins82 There’s a very posh Weegie/west coast accent too, which I think is closer to what Rowan was doing here due to the lilting cadences. Folk from Edinburgh and the Lothians don’t go ‘up and down’ like that; the cadence is flatter.
Brilliant sketch, hilarious. I used to have the whole show that this came from but lost it in a great PC crash a number of years ago, and can't find the whole show anywhere online. But there are other sketches you should be able to find from this, such as "The Best Man", "The Devil" and "School Register", plus a few others I can't remember right now. As for the "Gerald the Gorilla" sketch from "Not The Nine O'Clock News" - I'm sure I've seen that on Vimeo, might be worth checking there. It is an excellent sketch too.
Would that be Rowan Atkinson at stage? The one with the priest, the Indian restaurant and the actor in a Shakespearean play? We had that on VHS and watched it over and over
A bit of an obscure point which I think will escape 99.9 per cent of attention, but the “educated Scots” accent, plus the colours of his tie, conforms to the intellectual stereotype of Balliol College Oxford. Many of my schoolmasters were contemporaries of RA (who was at Queens Oxford), and although never whipped at school, you always knew they would wind you up.
Yeah it seems ‘ Gerald ‘ the gorilla has been dubbed persona non grata on TH-cam.. no idea why 🤷♂️ The punchline was “ when I first captured you you were totally wild ! “ “ Wild ?.. I was absolutely furious ! “ Rowan and Mel of course did it with much more style and Elan 😅 👍🏴
Try "Pink Tights and Plenty of Props"(also called "the Actors Art"), which is hilarious, and "Blackadder:The First"and you'll see some other great Rowan Atkinson! Dew it... The punchline for this made me scream laughing! "I wouldn't cancel afternoon school to bury that little shit!"
Glad you enjoyed it Boomer, it's one of my all time favourites, such a funny sketch! It's a shame the Gerald the Gorilla sketch seems to be on a woke blacklist as it's possibly my favourite ever Rowan sketch, it's absolutely hilarious! I do have a copy of the Gerald the Gorilla sketch on file, it's such a great sketch I'd love to see your reaction as it's absolute genius!
Great reaction! *Gerald the Gorilla* is no longer on TH-cam because of "racial sensitivities" but most wouldn't call it racist at all. It's funny & hilarious and *still available on Facebook* and other platforms, but not on TH-cam. However, I have seen recent reactions to the video clip on TH-cam, too. Maybe experts in social media politics could suggest alternatives to TH-cam.
The quality of those "Footlights" performers is staggering to look back on. Monty Python were one group along with Peter Cool and Dudley Moore, but then a couple of decades after, there was Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, Griff Reece-Jones, Mel Smith, Emma Thomson and of course Rowan himself. Forgive me for any I've missed out. Incidentally, you call yourself a "Boomer" but if you are around the age I *think* you are, then you are a "Generation Xer" like me! Your wife on the other hand is a Millennial 🇬🇧😊✌
Only 3 of the Pythons were in the footlights. Michal Palin and Graham Chapman went to Oxford and Terry Gilliam is an American. But yeah the illumni from the Footlights is incredible. Some more recent members that you missed are David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Richard Osman, Olivia Coleman and of course Taskmasters little Alex Horne
If there were a top 10 list of sketches from British sketch shows, Gerald the Gorilla would be comfortably in there. Even if you don't use it for a reaction vid, do yourself a favour and find it.
If you want to, you should the full show he did a range of sketches in Boston including the one on this post. I would recommend it. th-cam.com/video/9QykO_6l4Kg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=m74Q9HywBqEZLOHF
Did you pick up on his accent? Scottish, but soft, refined, academic, totally unlike Billy Connolly or, someone you really should react to, Rab C Nesbitt, he of the filthy string vest, dirty headband & disgusting ill fitting suit : "Sideboards is it? Sideboards! I'll give her bloody sideboards!!"
That's school in the UK for you. The teachers care for everything but the student. The fucking shoes they're wearing, the length of the shorts, the time they arrive to the second, what they do with their hair, etc. The only thing they really don't care about are the students. So this is even funnier if you're familiar with the draconian education system in the UK.
@robertstanley5555 and yet, it's the truth. Schools are worried that the shoes are the right shade of black, and in forcing them to wear warm clothes when the temperatures are hitting 40⁰C, or in charging fines if the students arrive late in the slightest, and all that crap. What they really don't care about is for the students. Schools in the UK go as far as having solitary confinement for students, like they do in American prisons. Students in the UK are treated worse than criminals.
He also starred in one of my favourite sitcoms "The Thin Blue Line" as a Police Commander surrounded by a 'unique' set of Police force characters. Bit like a nice straight-laced version of 'Blackadder is a policeman'.
Yes! I've been recommending it on JB's Patreon. "Too much fanny-ing about!" 😂
Otherwise known as idiots
Rowan Atkinson as the Indian Waiter live on stage is my favourite .
The "Thin Blue Line" is definitely worth a look.
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Rowan, as ever, establishes the character almost immediately with his "I didn't think this matter could be discussed over the electric telephone.". The slight burr to the speech and the archaism instantly set the tone.
If you can find a place to watch the Nine O’Clock News bit with Atkinson as “Gerald the gorilla” even in your own time, it’s absolutely amazing
This is THE absolute best Rowan Atkinson sketch, ever. Glad you enjoyed it so much too.
He really is a comedy genius. From Not the Nine O'clock News, Blackadder, The Thin Blue Line to Mr Bean and many other standalone sketches - check out his one about Hell and the Devil.
When you realize that he also has a speech impediment in the form of stammer, the man is an extraordinary talent.
That's why he puts so much emphasis on the letter B in speech, it's so he can get it out without stammering.
Fun fact: when Rowan thought his performance wasn't top-notch, he'd start stammering on purpose so he could do a retake.
@@lloydcollins6337 As in 'BoB', his manservant.
The one with the gorilla in is one of my favourite skits of all time. I've heard people in comment sections saying it's been scrubbed from the Internet though by the powers that be. Its very strange. If I don't see it when I look maybe it's on rumble
The Gerald The Gorilla sketch was on YT for well over a decade, then one day it wasn't any more. The same thing happened with Dave Allen's fallout shelter sketch.
He was livid... 😂
"Wild? I was absolutely livid"
@garethm3242 😂💯
I LOVE Rowan Atkinson!! It's 'Not The Nine O'Clock News'. So many great names from that programme! And, fun fact, he's a bit of a petrol head. My mum worked at a car dealership a few years back and he was a customer. I WISH I had met him!!!
@@WooHooCrossStitch 80s Pamela Stephenson. 😍
This is one of my favourite sketches. It's not from a TV show, but from a live stage show that he did way back, I think in the eighties. Toby the devil came from the same show. Other than revive some parts of it for charity, I don't think he ever did anything like it again. He is very much an actor rather than a comedian. He doesn't do stand up and he does few interviews and never pops up on celebrity shows. But then he has made so much money from Mr Bean he doesn't need to.
Oh this one!!! Such a classic
Never seen this..the last line is brilliant 😂😂
My teachers back in the 60s were harsh.
Rowan Atkinson's talent is best revealed when the material is fairly mundane. He can make a fairly ordinary sketch painfully hilarious.
I recall seeing him do a sketch in a live show shortly before The Black Adder was released. He later did a short version in his Mr Bean series. What I saw was 15 minutes of him trying to change on a beach with a man apparently asleep on a deck chair near by. It was 15 minutes of hilarious torture.
Don't know if you've reacted to it already but I love Rowan Atkinson's invisible drum kit sketch too. The man is a comic genius.
Angus Deaton is a ledge, got nabbed in a cocaine/hooker binge and still did a tv show for a couple of episodes til he was sacked. He was absolutely rinsed by Merton and Hislop
You really must watch the bride's father speech and the best man speech by Rowan.
This hour long special is the best
Rowan was speaking in a Scottish accent.
Aye a posh one
Not a Scottish accent, unless he was going for: born in Scotland, adopted by aristocrats in Oxfordshire, went to Eton, then Trinity college at Cambridge, PhD from Oxford and is now the headmaster at Harrow school. 😎
@@SiggiTh There is a posh form of scottish, that happens around edinburgh. sounds like that, think a softer McGonagall from harry potter.
@@SiggiTh No, he was definitely doing a posh Scottish accent. The rising/falling cadence and heavily rolled ‘r’s are unmistakable. It was a slightly shaky posh Scottish accent that veered into his own accent at points, but it was a posh Scots accent nonetheless. The poshest Scottish accents are really quite similar to posh English accents tbh.
@@stuartcollins82 There’s a very posh Weegie/west coast accent too, which I think is closer to what Rowan was doing here due to the lilting cadences. Folk from Edinburgh and the Lothians don’t go ‘up and down’ like that; the cadence is flatter.
Brilliant sketch, hilarious. I used to have the whole show that this came from but lost it in a great PC crash a number of years ago, and can't find the whole show anywhere online. But there are other sketches you should be able to find from this, such as "The Best Man", "The Devil" and "School Register", plus a few others I can't remember right now.
As for the "Gerald the Gorilla" sketch from "Not The Nine O'Clock News" - I'm sure I've seen that on Vimeo, might be worth checking there. It is an excellent sketch too.
Would that be Rowan Atkinson at stage? The one with the priest, the Indian restaurant and the actor in a Shakespearean play? We had that on VHS and watched it over and over
@@livb6945 Yes, I think so!
loved the reaction KB
Angus Deayton - the original host of "Would I Lie to You?"
Remember watching this when it came out, 😂
This never gets old. 😂
A bit of an obscure point which I think will escape 99.9 per cent of attention, but the “educated Scots” accent, plus the colours of his tie, conforms to the intellectual stereotype of Balliol College Oxford. Many of my schoolmasters were contemporaries of RA (who was at Queens Oxford), and although never whipped at school, you always knew they would wind you up.
That was amazing, and the rolling R almost k*lled me.
I love Rowan Atkinson as the US presidential candidate from Not the Nine O'clock News if I am not mistaken.
The impression of your teacher reminded me of John Hamm in Madmen dressing down one of his members of staff.
Yeah it seems ‘ Gerald ‘ the gorilla has been dubbed persona non grata on TH-cam.. no idea why 🤷♂️
The punchline was “ when I first captured you you were totally wild ! “
“ Wild ?.. I was absolutely furious ! “
Rowan and Mel of course did it with much more style and Elan 😅
👍🏴
'When a child is born', blaring out to all hours while I'm downstairs trying to do some work.
Mr Perkins ....from _Nighty Night_
"this sketch is killing me man".....I believe that was intentional 😂
This sketch is taking the mick out of the British public ( private) school system
You must watch the whole of rowan Atkinson live all the sketches are all there
Its a Classic!!!
Such a shame you can't seem to get the Gerald the Gorilla sketch
Genius
Try "Pink Tights and Plenty of Props"(also called "the Actors Art"), which is hilarious, and "Blackadder:The First"and you'll see some other great Rowan Atkinson!
Dew it...
The punchline for this made me scream laughing! "I wouldn't cancel afternoon school to bury that little shit!"
Hope you can get a version of the Gorilla you can watch. Tis a classic.
Glad you enjoyed it Boomer, it's one of my all time favourites, such a funny sketch! It's a shame the Gerald the Gorilla sketch seems to be on a woke blacklist as it's possibly my favourite ever Rowan sketch, it's absolutely hilarious! I do have a copy of the Gerald the Gorilla sketch on file, it's such a great sketch I'd love to see your reaction as it's absolute genius!
Like the intro 😂
Great reaction! *Gerald the Gorilla* is no longer on TH-cam because of "racial sensitivities" but most wouldn't call it racist at all. It's funny & hilarious and *still available on Facebook* and other platforms, but not on TH-cam. However, I have seen recent reactions to the video clip on TH-cam, too. Maybe experts in social media politics could suggest alternatives to TH-cam.
Dear King Bomer,if you liked this sketch, then please watch, also with Rowan Atkinson:
- "welcome to hell"
- scenes from a wedding.
Would you please react to Fry and Laurie Low self esteem?! I'd love that!! And you get to hear Laurie's American accent early on 😊
You told us about the......phoooone call man before
@KingBoomer Your former teacher should’ve been an actor with those expressions!!
😅
What a shame you couldn't see the gorilla sketch it is absolutely hilarious!
The quality of those "Footlights" performers is staggering to look back on. Monty Python were one group along with Peter Cool and Dudley Moore, but then a couple of decades after, there was Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Ben Elton, Griff Reece-Jones, Mel Smith, Emma Thomson and of course Rowan himself. Forgive me for any I've missed out.
Incidentally, you call yourself a "Boomer" but if you are around the age I *think* you are, then you are a "Generation Xer" like me! Your wife on the other hand is a Millennial 🇬🇧😊✌
Who could forget " Peter Cool" 😎😂!!!
Of course I meant Peter Cook - bloody spellchecker!! ✌
Only 3 of the Pythons were in the footlights. Michal Palin and Graham Chapman went to Oxford and Terry Gilliam is an American.
But yeah the illumni from the Footlights is incredible. Some more recent members that you missed are David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Richard Osman, Olivia Coleman and of course Taskmasters little Alex Horne
Pamela Stephenson...
@@timrussell9869 Pamela Stephenson never went to Cambridge, she got her degree from a University in America.
@@24magiccarrot She was part of the NTNON mob.
No , where's Toast . M. Berry .
If there were a top 10 list of sketches from British sketch shows, Gerald the Gorilla would be comfortably in there. Even if you don't use it for a reaction vid, do yourself a favour and find it.
That was a good one, shame you couldn't watch the gorilla in not the nine o'clock news
Rowan Atkinson doing 'toilet humour' th-cam.com/video/j2b-wTJ8x3E/w-d-xo.html
If you want to, you should the full show he did a range of sketches in Boston including the one on this post. I would recommend it.
th-cam.com/video/9QykO_6l4Kg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=m74Q9HywBqEZLOHF
Did you pick up on his accent? Scottish, but soft, refined, academic, totally unlike Billy Connolly or, someone you really should react to, Rab C Nesbitt, he of the filthy string vest, dirty headband & disgusting ill fitting suit : "Sideboards is it? Sideboards! I'll give her bloody sideboards!!"
Boomer did you get around to watching season 3 of idiot abroad
Boomer, try watching it with a VPN.
That's school in the UK for you. The teachers care for everything but the student. The fucking shoes they're wearing, the length of the shorts, the time they arrive to the second, what they do with their hair, etc. The only thing they really don't care about are the students. So this is even funnier if you're familiar with the draconian education system in the UK.
Sorry, but that's total BS, at least as a generalisation.
@robertstanley5555 and yet, it's the truth. Schools are worried that the shoes are the right shade of black, and in forcing them to wear warm clothes when the temperatures are hitting 40⁰C, or in charging fines if the students arrive late in the slightest, and all that crap. What they really don't care about is for the students.
Schools in the UK go as far as having solitary confinement for students, like they do in American prisons. Students in the UK are treated worse than criminals.
If you remove your bonnet the bee can fly away. 😉
It sounds like Rowan's trying to put on a mix of a Welsh and Scottish accent. it's kind of jarring to listen to.
If you can find a way you really should react to Gerald The Gorilla...Spoiler alert, Rowan is the Gorilla.
Seconded
KB you have too. I don't think that is much of a spoiler..
Due to current news in England this funny video is not funny at all but of course you will not be aware of it